Tobar Michael E, Hartnett John G, Ivanov Eugene N, Cros Dominique, Bilski Pawel
University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2002 Oct;49(10):1349-55. doi: 10.1109/tuffc.2002.1041076.
A dual-mode, sapphire-loaded cavity (SLC) resonator has been designed and optimized with the aid of finite element software. The resonance frequency was designed to be near the frequency of a Cs atomic frequency standard. Experimental tests are shown to agree very well with calculations. The difference frequency of two differently polarized modes is shown to be a highly sensitive temperature sensor in the 50 to 80 K temperature range. We show that an oscillator based on this resonator has the potential to operate with fractional frequency instability below 10(-14) for measurement times of 1 to 100 seconds. This is sufficient to operate an atomic clock at the quantum projection noise limit.
一种双模、蓝宝石加载腔(SLC)谐振器借助有限元软件进行了设计和优化。谐振频率被设计为接近铯原子频率标准的频率。实验测试结果与计算结果非常吻合。结果表明,两种不同偏振模式的差频在50至80K温度范围内是一种高灵敏度温度传感器。我们表明,基于这种谐振器的振荡器在1至100秒的测量时间内,具有分数频率不稳定度低于10^(-14)的运行潜力。这足以使原子钟在量子投影噪声极限下运行。